Jan 8: Eager to EAGER Today’s shenanigans involved starting up the EAGER radar early in the morning. Ellen and I planned to get out and...

Jan 1: Happy New Year! Another day of great weather here at Taylor Dome! I woke up and grabbed some letters from my family that...

Dec 25: Christmas! After a lovely morning of sleeping in, the team gathered for brunch before the galley closed for the day in prep for...

Dec 18: Stir crazy We woke to another cancelled flight message, which no one was particularly surprised about. Zoe had mentioned that the weather at...

Dec 12: Penguins!! Today’s day started with another EAGER radar meeting with John and Knut. Ellen and I walked through the setup together with John...

Dec 5: Snow day!!! We woke up to a beautiful and dangerous snowstorm today! There was only about 1 inch of snow throughout town but...

Nov 28: Arrival This morning, we prepped for another flight with 6 am wake-up for a 9 am flight. Since we’d already checked our bags...

Nov 19 – 21: Seattle to Christchurch Before leaving Seattle, I checked and double-checked to ensure that I had all of my gear. I checked...

Welcome to the start of my series of posts about my first Antarctic field season! I’ll be posting every week with some updates about what...

Yesterday, I rewatched one of my favorite documentaries, Old Lesbians. It documents the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project, a collection of 25 years of interviews, stories, and...

I received my first (and only) CD mixtape from my first girlfriend. It was filled with alternative rock with a handwritten note and tracklist on...

Seven years ago today, I got my hair cut for the first time in my life. Every year on the monumental anniversary of Clairecut, I...

I used to joke with my cousins that a family dinner was not complete without discussing who died, updates from Denmark, and politics. Throw in...

When I was in elementary school, I was enrolled in Spanish classes. I would stay after school with some classmates and practice vocabulary, sing songs,...

I am taking a course called Island Bodies and Bodily Autonomy: Reproductive Justice and Tourism in Neocolonial Jamaica. For the final project, I was tasked...

My sense of home has changed significantly throughout my life, especially during college. I’ve lived in five different places during the past four years; frankly,...

My Evolving Philosophy of Writing Writing has felt like a necessity, rather than an opportunity. I haven’t documented many of my thoughts simply because it...